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▸ noun: A single, usually precise, point in time.
▸ noun: A beverage or food which has been pre-processed to reduce preparation time, especially instant coffee.
▸ adjective: (dated) Impending; imminent.
▸ adjective: (dated) Urgent; pressing; acute.
▸ adjective: (dated) Insistent; persistent.
▸ adjective: (law) Present; current; extant.
▸ adjective: Occurring immediately; immediate; present.
▸ adjective: Lasting for a short moment; momentary; short-lived.
▸ adjective: Very quickly and easily prepared.
▸ adjective: Of the current month.
▸ adverb: (poetic) At once; immediately.
▸ verb: (obsolete, transitive) To urge, press (smeone); to insist on, demand (something).
▸ noun: Ellipsis of instant camera. [A camera that uses self-developing film to create a chemically developed print shortly after the photograph is taken.]
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moment,
New York minute,
present,
jiffy,
instantaneous,
imperative,
exigent,
insistent,
fast,
minute,
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